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[OM] Re: Latitude of exposure with an E-thing

Subject: [OM] Re: Latitude of exposure with an E-thing
From: Jonas Otter <jonas@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:43:32 +0200
Another difference I believe is that film is logarithmic in response, 
that is to say that doubling the exposure will increase the density 
(blackness) by something like 0.3, whereas digital sensors are linear. 
Since exposure is measured logarithmically in stops, this means that a 
digital camera will have half of its brightness steps distributed within 
the brightest stop of exposure, 1/4 of them within the next brightest 
stop etc. Also the colour channels do not have the same sensitivity, and 
the in-camera processing will copy brightness values between colours for 
each pixel to maximise the exposure latitude.

Jonas

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